Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.